Welcome to the webpage for Sonic Overload. As my regular listeners know by now, I play punk, hardcore, garage and other loud music, although there are surprises from time to time as well as decidedly slanted commentary on the “issues of the day” and that’s also presented through song selections and audio clips.

 

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Sonic Overload

Al Quint

PO Box 43

Peabody, MA 01960

E-mail: subvox82@gmail.com

 

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FEBRUARY 17, 2025

 

The final song this week is called “Life Stinks,” an abrasive proto-punk song that I definitely feel lately. Longer than lately but I digress. And it goes out to Cheetah Chrome, who is better known for his work in the Dead Boys (who I played last week) but also played in Rocket From The Tombs. That band split into Pere Ubu and Frankenstein, which eventually evolved into the Dead Boys. There’s your punk rock history lesson this week. Class is still in session, though.

 

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Sonic Overload 2/17/25

 

PART 1

 

COFFIN BREAK-Kill The President (C/Z)

 

STAGGER-Rigged (demo)

URBANOIA-Psykose (Solar Funeral)

MORAL END-No Freedom (demo)

FRENZY-Collective Psychosis (Distort Reality)

POSITIVE THINKING-Knock The Rust (demo)

ROTARY CLUB-Progress Calling (Iron Lung)

DE( )T-It’s Going Great (Simp)

 

BRIEFS-No More Presidents (BYO)

LIQUIDS-I Killed D.T. (Drunken Sailor)

REAL SHOCKS-Cop Song (demo)

TRENCHKOAT-Psychic Grasp (No Front Teeth/Big Neck)

KLAUS-Suicide (demo)

POW!-The Heart & The Spade (Castle Face)

 

STABBING JABS-Radiation Love (Reptilian)

BLACK PANTIES-I Don’t Care About The Punx (demo)

SPK-Mekano (The Grey Area)

LILI Z.-Petite Râleuse (In The Red)

 

PART 2

 

FLUX OF PINK INDIANS-Progress (One Little Indian)

ZOUNDS-Can’t Cheat Karma (Crass)

THE EX-New Wars (self-released)

BAUS-Fake News (Digital Regress)

LACK OF KNOWLEDGE-A Prayer and a Bomb (GTA)

 

BEAST OF BEAST-White Boys Don’t Lie (My Ass)

BAYONETTES-Tension (demo)

THE NERVOUS-Kopfweh (Nervous)

WASTOIDS-My Toronto (Deranged)

YOUNG MOTHER-Smart Kids (Telephone Explosion)

STINKHOLE-Mold Encrusted Egg (Mangel)

 

SONIC’S RENDEZVOUS BAND-City Slang (Revenge)

DR. FEELGOOD-Milk and Alcohol (United Artists)

STATUS QUO-Little Lady (Vertigo)

 

PART 3

 

CORONARY-Savior (Rad Girlfriend)

SIYAHKAL-Your Head In My Arms (Static Shock)

VEUVE SS-Viscères (Flower of Carnage)

 

JOY RYDER & AVIS DAVIS-Nasty Secretary (Monogo)

MONITORS-Trouble (from “Outlaws In My Eye,” Cardiac Arrest)

SPIZZENERGI-Where’s Captain Kirk? (Rough Trade)

KLARK KENT-Don’t Care (IRS)

 

THE VERMIN-Johnny’s Thunder (Wood Shampoo)

VECTORS-Kill (Busted Heads)

MOORAT FINGERS-Hateball (Radio Blast)

MISSION FOR CHRIST-Stay The Course (Ektro)

MOX NIX-We Won’t Be Controlled (from “All For One… One For All,” GTA)

PLAIN WRAP-Green Light, Red Light (RBI)

 

PART 4

 

HOT SNAKES-Automatic Midnight (Swami)

BOILERMAKER-Crispin Glover Weekend (Numero Group)

HOOVER-Pretender (Dischord)

SKIN TAGS-Noble Lie (Already Dead)

THE C.I.A.-Over (In The Red)

 

LAMPS-Hawaiian Voters (In The Red)

METZ-Negative Space (Sub Pop)

FOAM-Test Flight (demo)

POLLUTION-Smut STS (C6 Recordings)

 

ROCKET FROM THE TOMBS-Life Stinks (Smog Veil)